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@futurebird
This whole thread.
Also, most of #philip_k_dick
Also, #adrianTchaikovsky
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I like Tchaikovsky's views on genAI, from the there's no "I" in it and the Chinese Room argument to what he says about the artistic process. Oh, and his advice to young writers / artists: "I mean... don't use it?"
I guess it's a very Mastodon friendly interview:
- Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=2921fa1687402792970f086a1823b045&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finv.nadeko.net%2F&v=4t8Po6cWFm4
- YouTube if Invidious doesn't work:https://youtu.be/4t8Po6cWFm4#adrianTchaikovsky #ai #books #writer #tech #scienceFiction #genAI #writing #interview
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Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky (audiobook)
This was my in-car listening for the drive to France, and it took me a couple more weeks to finish.
It’s another in the author’s endlessly inventive series of books about uplifted animals. There have been Dogs, Bears, Bees, Spiders, Crustaceans… and now we have a whole petting zoo of small animals uplifted in order to be the invisible servants who keep a “utopian” human civilisation running.
Mice, rats, squirrels, possums, reptiles, amphibians, pigeons, crows, cats… and a trash panda (raccoon) named Skotch. Originally created by a human corporation to (of course) collect trash, Skotch has followed his independent nature and now scratches a living as a private investigator. This is a hard path to follow, not least because of Rule #1, but also because all the uplifted creatures are dependent on a regular supply of a serum, which keeps them smart. In Skotch’s case, the serum must be taken in the form of eye drops—and if he misses a dose, he loses his verbal acuity, his ability to think, and reverts to his raccoon self.
Hired by his old company to find a missing mouse, with a fee too big to refuse, Skotch finds himself pitched into the titular war between the Reds and the Greys. Everybody seems to be after the missing mouse, and nobody will say why.
Like that other PI in a different genre universe, Philip Marlowe, Skotch is constantly assailed, assaulted, captured, imprisoned, and generally irritated by his various adversaries. It’s tremendous fun. At the same time, try explaining to your spouse what you’re listening to!
The audiobook is narrated by John Pirhalla, who does a lot of genre stuff and manages to imbue the various uplifted species with personality, though you will (I say again) be hard-pushed to explain the silly voices emanating from the speakers in your car.
“What on earth is that?”
“It’s a smart pigeon talking to a raccoon.”
“Is that another raccoon?”
‘No, that’s a stoat assassin.”
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Alien Clay: fascinating xenobiosphere + fascism
Shroud: fascinating xenobiosphere + capitalism
Is there any book by Tchaikovsky where our future society isn't a nightmare?
Not a rhetorical question, I very much liked those two books, that's why I'm curious about how he'd write a livable future.
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Create millennia-spanning sci-fi epics in this groundbreaking roleplaying game based on the award winning Children of Time novels. #crowdfundQuest #crowdfunding #kickstarter #rowanRookAndDecard #childrenOfTime #adrianTchaikovsky
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/crowdfund-quest/crowdfund-quest-children-of-time-the-roleplaying-game?utm_source=mastodon -
Dialling back the weirdness a wee bit compared to the previous book, but looses nothing of the magnificent world building:
I'm halfway through the fourth part of the Children of Time Series that has, as usual, a new planet, a new species and also covers many topics skimmed over by the previous books, like the other sentient species on Kerns World. Eerie and wonderful it sits right at the centre between space horror, hard sci-fi and space opera
Also I really can recommend the audio book, Mel Hudson is a phenomenal voice actor.
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/children-of-strife/9781035057788
#ChildrenOfTime #AdrianTchaikovsky #Scifi #books #audiobooks
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📚 Octocon Presents: Adrian Tchaikovsky
One of our 2026 Guests of Honour, Adrian Tchaikovsky, joined us for a reading from 'Green City Wars' along with an interview with David Green.
If you missed the live event, you can now catch the recording and hear Adrian discuss his latest novel >>
https://www.youtube.com/live/jgA2SaGM44E?t=310s#Octocon2026 #AdrianTchaikovsky #GreenCityWars #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Books #AuthorInterview
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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky: Book 29 of 2026: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This was excellent. My favorite of Tchaikovsky’s books that I’ve read so far.
https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2026/07/16/service-model-by-adrian-tchaikovsky
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I have an old, old tradition in book signings that instead of my name, I ask the author to write a one-line story. #AdrianTchaikovsky obliged with this lovely little one at #Finncon.
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#AdrianTchaikovsky opening the day at #Finncon
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Book Review: Green City Wars
Fade into a private investigators office. Black and white. Smoky. Old timey Americana. The PI sits alone in his chair drinking coffee. This is Skotch. Skotch is a raccoon.https://collectingandreading.co.uk/2026/07/09/book-review-green-city-wars/
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Book Review – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
My first book of 2025 is the second book I’ve read by author Ann Leckie. Both books, Translation State and Ancillary Justice, are set in the same world of the Imperial Radch series, though the stories are not directly connected. Reading Translation State led me to Ancillary Justice, the first book of Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, and I am eagerly looking forward to book two.
Ancillary Justice introduces us to Breq, a soldier, at least that’s how they present themselves. In reality, Breq is the last surviving ancillary of Justice of Toren, a destroyed warship of the Radch, and is on a mission of vengeance, one which will immensely change the empire, either in success or failure.
Characters like Breq, the last fragment of an artificial intelligence over 2000 years old now contained in a human body, and Seivarden, a former Lieutenant on the Justice of Toren a thousand years ago. Both are fish out of water, Breq as an AI trying to pass as human and Seivardan, a human a thousand years out of time who has lost everything. These two do need each other, though, of course, neither knows or believes it for some time, and their shared journey throughout the book, along with Breq’s back story, is compelling on its own.
Ancillary Justice has the distinct honor of earning the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the only book to do so. I can see why and I think you will, as well. I completed the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I look forward to reading the rest of this one.
#2025Intentions #AdrianTchaikovsky #AncillaryJustice #AnnLeckie #ArthurCClarkeAward #BookReview #ChildrenOfTimeSeries #HugoAward #ImperialRadchSeries #NebulaAward #ReadAtLeast15MinutesADay #TranslationState
